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[–] 23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (33 children)

It must suck for legitimate high quality Chinese artisans to live in a totalitarian regime which frequently outlaws art forms and spiritually with threat of imprisonment, slavery, death, and fiery destruction of everything they've built.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (29 children)

    You say Chinese, but you mean Republican.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 month ago (7 children)

    China is already there. Republicans are working to get us there.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    Is China there? I know that Conservatives like to say that it is, but Republicans always lie.

    Ive got friends who came from China, they disagree.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    They have to. If China hears them talking shit, they'll hunt them down.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    If China hears them talking shit...in my house...

    Do you think Chinese spies are listening at the windows?

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  • [–] 0 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

    So on one hand, I have propagandists who I know have been lying to me for years.

    On the other hand I have friends over to my house who occasionally talk about China, and say that while its not particularly amazing, its really not much worse than growing up poor and black in America (and we live in areas of America that aren't batshit).

    I don't think China is some bastion of democracy, but I am increasingly skeptical when Capitalists tell me how awful China is supposed to be...and by "Awful" they mean that China might do the same shit that America does, except they actually arrest government officials who are too corrupt.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 child)

    Yeah, if you don't do any political activism, and you don't say things that are unapproved too loudly, and you don't end up at one of those slave labor (BYD) or corpo plants with the suicide netting, then you can certainly get by with the way things are.

    But political activism and freedom of speech and the bill of rights is also how we make things better. Without those, and without people who fought for those, we wouldn't have "the weekend" as a concept.

    And with how much efficiency has risen over the last hundred years, we should be able to do better than just the weekend.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 weeks ago

    Yeah, if you don’t do any political activism, and you don’t say things that are unapproved too loudly, and you don’t end up at one of those slave labor (BYD) or corpo plants with the suicide netting, then you can certainly get by with the way things are.

    Is this America or is this propaganda about what China is supposed to be like?

    But political activism and freedom of speech and the bill of rights is also how we make things better. Without those, and without people who fought for those, we wouldn’t have “the weekend” as a concept.

    China also has the concept of the weekend...

    And with how much efficiency has risen over the last hundred years, we should be able to do better than just the weekend.

    But we live under capitalism, so the most likely result is that the weekend is going to only be for those born wealthy.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (18 children)

    I don't have to imagine you, you're right here.

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    China literally helped reelect that fucking pedophile, so clearly there is something they have done to be more evil.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    its literally 2 weeks ago when I was here.

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  • [+] -1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (8 children)
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    China used TikTok, a weapon they created, to promote Trump leading to the largest ever recorded shift towards conservatives among youth voters and the reversal of a decades long trend.

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  • [+] 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (6 children)
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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    The USA had a program that protected millions from starvation until the Chinese and Russian supported Trump Admin cut USAID, now an estimated 4.5 Million Children are expected to die soon.

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  • [+] -6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    It's just not as bad as your Western propaganda makes you believe it is. If I spoke fluent Chinese I'd rather live in China than the fascist oligarch run shithole that is the USA.

    Luckily I live in Australia which is pretty great.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 weeks ago*

    I speak fluent Chinese and I rather live in US (or Taiwan).

    The US has improved and also worsened in different ways the last 40 years that I'm here. (And I'm talking about being a Asian American.)

    I've met many people that say the same as you, but so far no one has actually moved (back) to China.

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